"Jnana teaches that the world should be given up, but not on that account to be abandoned. To be in the world but not of it-is the true test of the sannyasin."
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"I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow."
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"Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world."
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"I never really cared for the things of this world. It was the glow of Your Presence that filled it with beauty."
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"Once we begin to speak of men mixing their labour with the earth, we are in a whole world of new relations between man and nature, and to separate natural history from social history becomes extremely problematic."
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"Today I no longer need to change the world around me. I just need to change the way I see it."
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"We must be the world we want to create."
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"What is society but an individual? [] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world."
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"People talk of “social outcasts.” The words apparently denote the miserable losers of the world, the vicious ones, but I feel as though I have been a “social outcast” from the moment I was born. If ever I meet someone society has designated as an outcast, I invariably feel affection for him, an emotion which carries me away in melting tenderness."
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"The person who sows a single beautiful thought in the mind of another, renders the world a greater service than that rendered by all the faultfinders combined."
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"In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It's their normal life. But in other part of the world, we are starving for education... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond."
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"It would have been the easiest thing in the world for us to build those emplacements under the guise of something totally different and they would have never been discovered. The amazing thing was that they weren't discovered earlier. It was a question of carelessness, lack of foresight."
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"I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!"
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"In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world."
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"We aren't really called to save the world-not even to save one person; Jesus does that. We are just called to love with abandon. We are called to enter into our neighbors' sufferings and love them right there."
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"The world is an inherently unfair place."
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"To him who looks at the world rationally the world looks rationally back."
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"I've always had a theory that whenever guys and gals start swinging, they begin to lose interest in conquering the world. They just want a comfortable pad and stereo and wheels, and their thoughts turn to the good things of life - not to war. They loosen up, they live and they're more apt to let live."
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"To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder."
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"The world is coming to an end in 1950."
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